The Very Best Of The Jam - The Jam

Paul Weller vowed when he split from the jam in '82 he would never play with Buckler and Foxton again, why?, I have no idea, maybe the strain of living in each others pockets for 10 years can do this to a person, especially someone as moody as Weller. It's no secret the band had started to fall apart at the seams when Weller started feeling the pressure of "living in a fishbowl" as he put it. I'm a great believer to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. And so am very happy that we even had a "Jam" to begin with, Weller's song writing skills are some of the most well observed by any song writer, for him to have written ...  Read the complete review

Back in the late 70?s and early 80?s Music had reached a new dimension. Punk had risen from the ashes of disco, and the music became loud, angry and frantic. Paul Weller met Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckley while at school in Woking. The three spiky haired young men loved music and decided to form their own band in 1973. Although a Mod by heart, Weller was heavily influenced by the punk music currently dominating the music scene, and The Jam developed a style all of their own. Dressed in Mod suits, the group played an angry punk guitar, a booming bass guitar and rumbling drums while their faces ...  Read the complete review